Tony Millionaire grew up in the seaside town of Gloucester, Massachusetts where his grandparents taught him to draw ships and old houses. After spending thousands of Sunday afternoons gazing at his grandfather's collections of old newspaper comics, he picked up a pen and started drawing monkeys with striped tails and top hats. He now writes and draws the comic book Sock Monkey as well as the weekly strip "Maakies," which has won him three Eisner Awards and has been animated for Saturday Night Live. He lives in Pasadena, California with his wife and daughters.
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After spending thousands of Sunday afternoons gazing at his grandfather's collections of old newspaper comics, Tony picked up a pen and started drawing monkeys with striped tails and top hats. He now writes and draws the comic book Sock Monkey as well as the weekly strip "Maakies," which has won him three Eisner Awards and has been animated for Saturday Night Live.
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I was born in the fishing town of Gloucester Massachusetts, a town full of fishermen and seascape painters. My grandparents were artists, they taught me how to use ink pens and oil paint. My grandpop showed me lots of old newspaper comics he had saved, old ones, Roy Crane, Lionel Feininger, Winsor McKay. When I was in college I discovered R. Crumb and S. Clay Wilson. I drew a lot of perverted comics, until one day I discovered George Herriman, the grandfather of American comics. The true master. People often ask me if comics are "art." Whatever, I don't care what you call them, but when you're immersed in a collection of Herriman Sundays you understand what they're getting at.
I love funny comics but I love moving, emotional, poetical comics, too. Preferably a mixture of both.
I love funny comics but I love moving, emotional, poetical comics, too. Preferably a mixture of both.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Nothing is safe, nothing is canon.,
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This review is from: Tony Millionaires Sock Monkey: Uncle Gabby (Hardcover)
Oh man. This is a really weird book. Even by Tony Millionaire standards, this is a really weird book. I bought it for my daughter after getting her most of the other Sock Monkey books. But I haven't read it to her yet on account of being too freaked out by the metaphysical weirdness to take another look at it. I'm sure she will deal with it just fine. It's me that I'm worried about.
Suffice to say that the whole Sock Monkey world is not what we thought it was. Nothing is safe. Nothing is sacred. Nothing is canon. The message of this book appears to be that all you really have for certain is what is right in front of you and the experience at this present moment. Memories could be false or mistaken. The future is totally unknown and potentially disasterous. But look, there's the moon. Most kids can handle this book, I think. It's the parents who will walk away from the bedside with jaw hanging slack and their eyes wide open. I'm giving this 5 stars despite being afraid to pick up the book again. Any children's book that prompts this kind of serious thought using pictures of a sock monkey riding around in a cart pulled by a pair of yorkies deserves all the stars that I can possibly give.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful and Billiant,
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This review is from: Tony Millionaires Sock Monkey: Uncle Gabby (Hardcover)
If you know Tony Millionaire's adult comic, Maakies, you might think that he would write an ironic children's book. This is not the case. Tony Millionaire has a soft side and it's beautiful. This book is absolutely OK for kids. Some of the deeper text might go over the head of a child and even the adult reading to the child, but the pictures and story won't loose their interest.
This book will be remembered as a peer amongst the likes the Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland. The drawings are astounding. The story is beautiful.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
perhaps the best sock monkey story yet...,
By howard johnson "jinglesquid" (Lakeland, FL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tony Millionaires Sock Monkey: Uncle Gabby (Hardcover)
wow! tony millionaire sure knows how to pull the most wonderful surprises out of his hat. not that is surprising to find a cleverly written and brillantly illustrated book by him, but nonetheless, this book is something else. sad and poetic and utterly wistful, children of all ages, and particularly children who have suddenly discovered that they have mysteriously gotten older and things have changed, will find this book quite appealing (and maybe even disturbing, in a good way of course...) i would give this book 5 stars for the last page alone...what can i say...BUY IT!
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